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war world saving
Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
war what-if ifs
What if someone gave a war and Nobody came? Allen Ginsberg
war lying military
Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. Allan Massie
war men soldier
Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.
war achievement president
Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. Allan Lichtman
war college soldier
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges Alistair Cooke
war drama memorable
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
war promise holy
Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
war missing want
Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I? Alison McGhee
self people stories
You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story. Ann Beattie
self way ifs
If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive. Viggo Mortensen
self impossible priceless
What is so priceless about being the selves we were created to grow into is that it's impossible to do it wrong. Victoria Moran
self enemy doubt
Self-doubt is the greatest enemy of any new good habit.
self guy former
I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy? Victor Cruz
self saint care
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion. Victor Hugo
self denial egotism
The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
self goal upset
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit. Vernon Howard
self unseen behavior
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.